Jason And Gilgamesh Research Paper

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One similarity that is found between Jason and the Argonauts and The Epic of Gilgamesh is the various landscapes the heroes cross in their journey or quest. One common landscape between the epics is a sacred wooded area. In Book 4 of Jason and the Argonauts the exact name and description given to the area is the, “sacred grove and found the huge oak tree from which the fleece was hanging, brilliant as a cloud that glows red in the rays of fiery dawn” (4.154-157). Likewise in The Epic of Gilgamesh the sacred wooden area is called the forest, which Humbaba resides and is described as, “They gazed at the height of the cedars…They saw the cedar mountain, dwelling of the gods, sacred to the goddess Irnina… The undergrowth is tangled, the thicket …show more content…

For Jason, one of the main characters of the epic Jason and the Argonauts, his strange new world is the land of Colchis. Upon reaching Colchis and meeting King Aeëtes, Jason responds to this foreign land by staying himself. Staying himself means that Jason attempts to do everything his way that he is familiar with back home in Greece. Jason does this by cutting off King Aeëtes in the middle of his rampage, in order to try to soothe and convince him to give up the golden fleece with diplomatic words of, “subdue beneath your (King Aeëtes) scepter the Sauromatae or some other tribe” (3520-521). This diplomatic attempt backfires as Aeëtes plots to kill Jason from there on out. Unlike Jason, Tarzan adapts to his new strange world of living among the apes. Instead of trying to act like his English parents, Tarzan watches and adapts to the way of the apes. This is evident as, “Tarzan grew he made more rapid strides, so by the time he was ten years old he was an excellent climber, and on the ground could do many wonderful things which were beyond the powers of his little brothers and sisters” (37). By simply adapting Tarzan is able to avoid less strife in his new world of the apes rather then Jason in his world amongst the

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